Physiological and pathological researches / being a reprint of the principal scientific writings of the late T. R. Lewis ... Arranged and edited by Sir William Aitken ... G. E. Dobson ... and A. E. Brown.

Timothy Richards Lewis

Date:: 1888

Credit: Physiological and pathological researches / being a reprint of the principal scientific writings of the late T. R. Lewis ... Arranged and edited by Sir William Aitken ... G. E. Dobson ... and A. E. Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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$to be noted that in grouping wheat, rice and bai'ley under one and the same heading, the Conference did not sufficiently consider the great importance, from a dietetic point of view, of the varying proportion of albuminates which these cereals contain. Kice, for example, with its average of 7 or 8 per cent, of nitrogenous substance, and wheat-flour, with a percentage of 13, cannot be taken as interchangeable measure for measure in any scheme of dietary. 38. Some of the principal forms into which the dietary suggested may be resolved are given in Table II of the Appendix, it being taken for granted that the phrase sifted flour (or attah) should be considered as implying not only wheaten flour, but also the flour of the other cereals which form staple articles of food all over India. The animal food form of the diet has been framed in this table on the scale approved by the Jail Committee of 1864, namely, at the rate of lib. per week of meat, fish, or milk in its various forms, being issued according to the requirements of different nationalities. The Conference does not mention the quantity of milk which they would recommend in lieu of meat or fish, consequently no computation of the nutritive value of this form of diet could be undertaken. The following statement will serve as a summary of the details given in the larger table. The aggregate ingredients of the several diets are also reduced to their chief proximate alimentary principles :— The chief Proximate Alimentary Constituents of the principal foo^ms of the diet pro- posed /o?' labouring prismiers by the Indian Jail Conferen('E of 1877. ANIMAL FOOD FORMS OF DIET—OPTIONAL. (b) Meat diet. (e) Fish diet. Ounces. Grains. OuuceP. Grains. 1 i at 6 S ■£| at 00 a bH Nitrogen. Carbon. Albumi- nates. Carbo- hydrates. 1 i 1 a ^ 1 Nitrogen. Carbon. 3-03 19-89 -68 209 4,805 309 19-90 •56 213 4,778 4-07 16-51 •90 281 4,405 4^12 16-89 -57' 284 4,438 3-10 1774 •86 214 4,465 313 17-78 •74 216 4,438 3-14 16-95 1-28 217 4,465 319 16-98 1 •] 5 220 4,438 3-43 16-35 1-42 237 4,465 3^48 16-38 1^29 240 4,438 3-42 15-63 r83 236 4,465 3^45 15-69 1^70 238 4,438 3-26 16-43 1-49 225 4,465 3^30 16-45 r37 228 4,438 3-35 17-07 1-21 231 4,513 339 1715 10b 234 4,486 (a) Diets c.insisting aoi kly ok VEGETABLE AND FATTY SUBSTANCES. Staple cereal of each DIET. Ounces. Grains. Il < Carbo- hydrates. Fats. Nitrogen. 1 '_> I.—Rice 2^85 21-66 0-51 197 5,047 II,—Wheat-flour 4^03 18-05 •76 278 4,707 III.—Barley-meal 2-94 19-45 •71 203 4,707 IV.—Jowar-flour 3^00 18-56 M7 207 4,707 V.—Bajra-flour 3-33 17-87 r33 230 4,707 VI.—Makki-flour 3^30 17-09 1-79 228 4,707 VII.—Raggi-fluur 313 17-95 \-i2 216 4,707 Daily average nutritive ) value. S 3-22 18-66 110 223 4,755$